Tag Gianluca Giordano

24-09-2020

Rotterdam by bike, from countryside to canals

The city of Rotterdam is known for its harbour and its architecture, especially from the post-war period and today’s famous icons, from the Erasmus Bridge to the station and the Markthal, to name but a few. But in no time at all, you can ride your bike out of the city, through the green countryside with its picturesque canals and farms.

17-10-2019

Industrial architecture in Rotterdam, the waterworks

Rotterdam is a Mecca for fans of contemporary architecture, with impressive buildings and landmarks. But this Dutch city hides some of its oldest treasures, magnificent examples of industrial architecture that include the De Esch waterworks, turned into a residential zone in the 1970s.

01-05-2019

Asti Architecture Festival, 2019

The third edition of A.S.T.I. FEST, which stands for Architecture – Development – Territory – Innovation began a few days ago. This festival explores the themes connected to architecture and urban planning and is organised every three years by the Cultural Committee of the Association of Architects, Designers, Landscape Architects and Curators (Ordine degli Architetti, P.P.C.) in the province of Asti.

11-04-2019

Ignazio Gardella, rationalist gems in Alessandria

During one of the open days organised by FAI – the National Trust for Italy – when the general public can visit architectural monuments that are normally off-limits, the church of the former tuberculosis sanatorium in Alessandria very first building designed by Ignazio Gardella, one of Italy's great 20th century architects Ignazio Gardella was one of Italy's most important and influential architects and designers in the 1900s but very few people are familiar with his first work - the church of the “Sanatorio Antitubercolare Vittorio Emanuele III”, the old tuberculosis sanatorium, now the “Centro Riabilitativo Polifunzionale Teresio Borsalino”, a multipurpose rehabilitation centre in the city of Alessandria, Piedmont.

25-12-2018

A refurbished printing shop

Old industrial architecture is seeing a renaissance not only in the big cities but also in the provinces.

28-11-2018

Expowall opens SGallery, a new space for art

Pamela Campaner and Alberto Meomartini of Expowall Gallery redouble their efforts to bring culture inside an industrial architecture in Milan.

10-08-2018

Cino Zucchi, Ferran Adrià and Federico Zanasi, Dante Ferretti and Ralph Appelbaum for Nuvola Lavazza Turin

The fourth generation of entrepreneurs of a historic Italian brand, Lavazza, has put together a team of excellence in four different fields - architecture, food, scenic design and design - for the creation of the “Nuvola Lavazza”. Here the brand’s offices dialogue with spaces open to the public, including a gourmet restaurant, an interactive museum dedicated to the 120 years of history of the company and the headquarters of the Institute of Applied Art and Design (IAAD).

19-07-2018

Nuvola Lavazza, urban regeneration in Turin, designed by Cino Zucchi

Architect Cino Zucchi has designed Nuvola Lavazza as the new headquarters of the famous coffee company by redeveloping the disused area of the former power station in Turin's Aurora district.

09-07-2018

Ivrea as UNESCO World Heritage Site

Italy now has its 54th UNESCO World Heritage Site, “Ivrea industrial city of the 20th century”, an acknowledgement of the entire system based on Adriano Olivetti’s humanistic concept, not just the individual buildings. Floornature’s editorial team has been keeping up with the entire process of acknowledgement, from candidacy onwards, recorded in photographs by Gianluca Giordano.